The Latest Breaking News from Bakhmut

Increased fighting to capture eastern town of Bakhmut comes as both sides prepare for battle for Kherson

The Wagner Group has fought on behalf of the Kremlin in a range of arenas including Syria, Libya, central Africa and, most recently, in the Sahel, where its soldiers replaced French forces in Mali, Kim Sengupta reports

Russia's troops fought Thursday to regain lost ground in areas of Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin has illegally annexed while Moscow tried to pound the invaded country into submission with more missile and drone attacks on critical infrastructure. Russian forces attacked Ukrainian positions near Bilohorivka, a village in the…

The United States will hold Russia accountable for "war crimes", the White House said on Monday, hours after Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with drones during morning rush hour, killing at least four people in an apartment building in Kyiv.

There is heavy fighting in two towns in Ukraine's Donbas region as thousands of Russian troops move to Belarus, further raising tensions along Ukraine's north-western border.

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Ukrainian troops are still holding the strategic eastern town of Bakhmut despite repeated Russian attacks while the situation in the Donbas region remains very difficult, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday.

Russian-backed forces have made some advances in eastern Ukraine, Britain said on Friday, even as Moscow's hold weakens in the south, where a Russian-installed official has advised residents to flee a region Russia claims to have annexed. A British intelligence update said forces led by the private Russian military company…

The scale of Ukraine’s recaptured territory was revealed as residents in Kherson — one of four regions illegally annexed by Russia last month — were urged to evacuate

Vladimir Putin's private army has made some “tactical gains" in Ukraine, British defence chiefs said on Friday, but the Russian Army as a whole is undermined by "severe shortages" of munitions and manpower.

Ukraine on Thursday was getting pledges from its Western allies for more powerful air defence systems, as the country was reeling from days of devastating and punitive Russian missile attacks.